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Multi-billion-dollar retailer Rakuten is including a panel of bitcoin industry representatives at its first financial conference next month.

Pioneering crypto 2.0 project Mastercoin has officially rebranded as Omni in a bid to solidify its messaging in the face of criticism and competition.

Federal investigators have confirmed that Brian Richard Farrell has been arrested in connection with black market website Silk Road 2.0.

PayPal's Techxploration event is a monthly meetup held by the payments company. This month, bitcoin was its focus.

Following Coinbase's record $75m round yesterday, CoinDesk looks back at the previous largest investments in the bitcoin space.

Bitspark has rolled out its second bitcoin-powered remittance service in a month, catering this time to Indonesian workers in Hong Kong.

A Chinese startup called Play claims it can disrupt the incumbent online gaming industry by placing games' logic on a blockchain.

Robert Faiella, the bitcoin trader charged alongside BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, has been sentenced to four years imprisonment in a New York court.

In a new interview, BBVA Ventures' Jay Reinemann discusses his firms investment in Coinbase and what his means for its parent bank.

Ripple Labs has named former National Economic Council director Gene Sperling to its board of directors.

CoinDesk takes a look at how Coinbase's investors are framing their participation in today's record-setting fundraising.

Coinbase has raised $75m from investors including the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, BBVA and telcom giant DoCoMo.

Trustatom has raised $100,000 in seed funding to launch CredyCo, its due diligence 'software as a service' solution aimed at venture capitalists.

Mike Hearn's decentralized crowdfunding app Lighthouse has officially launched in open beta.

The BBA and the Payments Council have published a response to the government's 'Call for Information' on digital currencies, issued last year.

Australian bitcoin company digitalBTC experienced a big selloff last Friday, prompting questions from the Australian Securities Exchange.

Bitwage has launched a new bitcoin-based payroll product that allows American companies to pay employees outside the US in their local currency.

KPMG has published a report which identifies bitcoin as both a threat and an opportunity to the banking sector.

The bitcoin price crashed below $200 last week, leaving market watchers trying to figure out just what had happened.

Singapore-based bitcoin firm CoinPip will attend South by Southwest in the US in March, thanks to sponsorship from a government agency.

Day two of TNABC Miami may have been most notable for its emphasis on security, a topic that arose in a number of the day's events.

Talking to CoinDesk, St Louis Fed VP David Andolfatto suggests the bitcoin network isn’t that much different from the Federal Reserve.

Bitcoin microtransactions startup ChangeTip, which allows people to send bitcoin tips over social media, has now added Facebook to its list of supported platforms. With the move, ChangeTip adds to its existing list of popular social media services, which include Twitter and Reddit. However, the team framed the integration of Facebook as a notable step forward. By leveraging the world’s largest social […]

Bitcoin Box is a prototype bitcoin payment terminal that relies on NFC and Bluetooth to enable offline payments.

Day one of the North American Bitcoin Conference illustrated how the bitcoin industry is pressing forward and turning ideas into action.